Seeing the Future Clearly Questions on Future Contingents by Robert Holcot by Robert Holcot

The belated and exceedingly splintered twentieth-century interest in Robert Holcot betrays how far those of us who are concerned with late medieval intellectual culture remain from appreciating the literary renown that he attained among late medieval readers.

The significance of this English Dominican friar, who died in 1349, is after all everywhere to be found among those who, in his century, valued books.